Summary: This issue includes the following: gender, poverty and demography: an overview, by Mayra Buvinic, Monica Das Gupta, and Ursula Casabonne; Development, modernization, and childbearing: the role of family sex composition, by Deon Filmer, Jed Friedman, and Norbert Schady; the consequences of the 'missing girls' of China, by Avraham Y. Ebenstein and Ethan Jennings Sharygin; the gender and intergenerational consequences of the demographic dividend: an assessment of the micro and macro linkages between the demographic transition and economic development, by T. Paul Schultz; macroeconomic stability and the distribution of growth rates, by Vatcharin Sirimaneetham and Jonathan R.W. Temple; the effect of male migration on employment patterns of women in Nepal, by Michael Lokshin and Elena Glinskaya; and political accountability and regulatory performance in infrastructure industries: an empirical analysis, by Farid Gasmi, Paul Noumba Um, and Laura Recuero Virto.